In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Twin Cities Area
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jordan Brewery Complex
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown